The Story of the Voyage
Subtitle: Sea-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521413015
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; History; 18th Century English Prose; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; British; 18th century; English prose literature; Foreign countries; Travelers' writings, English
First sentence: Relations of voyages and travels have at all times, and in all ages, since the invention of letters, been favourably received by the public: but, perhaps, in no age so well as in the present; writings of this kind being bought up with avidity and read with eagerness, more especially in this island, not only by the learned and polite, but also by the rude and illiterate.